I’m beginning to understand the real truth behind a First Draft being absolute crap. It’s a little disheartening because I sincerely felt that I was getting somewhere. I don’t know if I should keep ploughing through with what I have and alter everything when I reach the 3rd draft or just do the re-write now. Why does this have to be so difficult?
I sent a couple of chapters to a beta reader just to see if it was just me. Turns out my instincts were bang on – Chapter 1 is absolute crap. There were a few other issues that turned up but at least those are easily corrected. There’s also a minor error with the main character – I have to remember that the character needs to grow. There’s no interest in a God Character unless you working from the perspective surrounding said character. Lots of work ahead of me still.
Total Word count: 36,523
Weekly Goal: 4,000 / 7,000
Better luck next week,
A.D.
